Who supplies the information to configure Dell keyboards?

[nomnex]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:39:05 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/05/2011 04:13 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:27:46 +0200
> > Alexander Volovics wrote:
> >
> >> Why does Fedora lag behind Ubuntu in this regard while usually
> >> providing newer drivers and firmware than Ubuntu?
> > With fedora, a good guess is always the fanatical dedication to
> > open source licensing (but that is just a guess). Some lawyer may
> > have noticed that the Dell document describing the keyboard doesn't
> > have one of the acceptable creative commons licenses :-).
> 
> Can you avoid doing this so often?  It misleads other users and is not
> helpful in any way.  Thanks

I disagree. I find it useful to stress this licensing policy. From my
own experience I couldn't explain why OOo calc was stripped of some
handy features available on the Sun version. Both were open source
software from my perspective. A user on #fedora explained me this
particularity (i.e. stripped featured to respect the free
software fedora policy). It might not be obvious for casual users at
first, but once it is, a user can decide to comply or change
distribution (ev. to compile a needed software). I like this stand about
Fedora, and I don't see how's Alexander comment is negative?

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